Government fell disastrously short in dealing with Covid

Re:Government fell disastrously short in dealing with Covid ... by pasabagi on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:53AM (#27290512)

In a vacuum, I would agree. However, given that 'herd immunity' was absolutely not the approach east asian countries were going for, many of which had been battling with COVID already, and who had a great deal of experience in respiratory diseases, I think it was at best reckless.

I guess the thing that bugs me is that Boris Johnson is kind of a flippant person, and that approach carried over to the response to COVID, with the weeks of head-start we got being wasted as he missed important meetings to work on a Shakespeare book, and made the whole thing out to be some kind of joke, when if he had actually being paying attention, he probably would have seen it for the deadly threat it was before he caught it (and nearly died of it).

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Re:Government fell disastrously short in dealing with Covid ... by mc32 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:03AM (#27290609)

I’m curious how Sweden’s herd immunity strategy worked out for them?

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Re:Government fell disastrously short in dealing with Covid ... by pasabagi on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @12:40PM (#27292741)

Seems pretty well, actually. I'd be interested to know why - I'm also not entirely clear if they 'stayed the course'. I think there's also the aspect that not all lockdowns are created equal, so it's possible that the swedish restrictions might be actually more restrictive (in terms of virus spread, if not civil liberties) than the UK ones, which had a notable gap when it came to workplaces.

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